ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on the often-elided distinction between assemblage or ensemble and agencement in an empirical case of participatory strategic planning in the North-East of England, in which multiple relational strategies were mobilized and performed. The generation of strategic agency is vital to the transformation of an assemblage into an agencement. The network of actants involved in the strategic planning process remained a set of assemblages. Citizens, in particular, did not achieve strategic agency/agencement. It proposes a reading of citizen participation based on baroque complexity looking down and Deleuzoguattarian geophilosophy. The chapter outlines Deleuzoguattarian terms, including assemblage, agencement and territoriality. Deleuze and Guattari use the term territory in a metaphorical sense to depict sites of political engagement, their lines of power, practices and institutions. Territorialization is a form of action on, or capture of, individual or social forces which seeks to limit or constrain their possibilities for action.
